Gordon inspects Abingson Street Post Office
Gordon Marsden MP today went to examine the former Crown Post Office site on Abingdon Street in Blackpool.
Gordon Marsden has now written to Post Office managing director Alan Cook demanding urgent answers about what will happen to the Grade II-listed building in Abingdon Street.
Gordon expressed his concerns to residents who were there to meet him that it could be left to fall into disrepair and is calling for a guarantee from the Post Office that it will not be allowed to degenerate into an eyesore in the town centre.
In the letter to Mr Cook, Mr Marsden says there is "widespread concern" about the century-old building. He says: "I'd like to know urgently what plans you have for the building and what specific steps you are taking while it's unoccupied to keep is secure, in good repair and maintained."
Gordon has met with Post Office officials and is pressing the point home to them that this issue will not go away. "I have said that i will keep a very close eye on the Abingdon Street site. They wont get away with leaving it empty".
October 2007
